nuke

UK /njuːk/ · US /n(j)uk/ noun, verb

Also a form of nook nucha

Forms nukes nuking nuked

1. noun A nuclear weapon.
2. noun (by extension) Something that destroys or negates, especially on a catastrophic scale.
3. noun A nuclear power station.
4. noun (nautical) A vessel such as a ship or submarine running on nuclear power.
5. noun A person (such as a sailor in a navy or a scientist) who works with nuclear weapons or nuclear power.
6. noun (warez) A cautionary flag placed on a release to label it as "bad" for some reason or another (e.g., being a dupe of a previous release or containing malware).
7. noun (rare) A microwave oven. “Just put it in the nuke for two minutes and it will be ready to eat.”
8. noun (video games) A spell, item or ability that does a large amount of damage over a short period of time.
9. verb (transitive, chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) To use a nuclear weapon on (a target). “If a nuclear war ever breaks out, military facilities are likely to be nuked first.”
10. verb (transitive, chiefly Canada, US, colloquial, figuratively) To destroy or erase completely. “He had his posts nuked from the Google archives.”
11. verb (transitive, Internet slang, by extension) To carry out a denial-of-service attack against (an IRC user).
12. verb (transitive, Internet slang) To maliciously destroy an online community or chat server (especially on Discord) by mass-deleting channels, roles, and messages, or by mass-banning members, often using an automated script or bot. “The Chaos Gang managed to get administrator permissions and nuke the entire server in seconds.”
13. verb (transitive, chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) To expose to some form of radiation.
14. verb (transitive, chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) To cook in a microwave oven. “I’ll nuke some pizza for dinner.”
15. verb (transitive, US, nautical, colloquial) To overanalyze or despair unduly over something.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “nuke”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details